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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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een granted for a Venetian gondola, which isan improved type of merry-go-round, and this will be located nearthe Japanese theater. A small zoo will be maintained, includingbirds, monkeys and other small animals. An artificial lake is onthe north side, and here will be black African geese, white ducksand other water fowl. A crew of log rollers has been engaged togive exhibitions on the lake. These men will show how logs are the city mains, but eventually it will come from two 6-in, artesianwells. The power house and operating station is on the north shoreof the lake. Two railway motors drive Quimby pumps, supplying300,000 gals, of water per hour, or running at full capacity thefountain jets will emit 5,000 gals, of water per minute. The currentfor these motors is to be taken from the trolley circuit Each of the light-wells is 2 it. in diameter and 2 ft. high, andbeneath is an equipment of nine colored sashes. These are movedby a motor in the chamber beneath the fountain which drives ig
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THE GEISHAS DANCING GIRLS AND JAPANESE MUSICIANS. handled in the water, and among other things will have spiritedcontests, trying to throw each other into the water by rolling thelogs. The electric fountain has received more careful consideration inits design and construction than any other feature of the park, andthe outcome is one of the largest and finest fountains in the coun-try. The design is tlie joint effort of C. E. Moore, master mechanic, shafts connected to the colored sashes by a pinion and rack. Un-derneath each light-well is an arc light with reflector giving 10,000c. p. In the power station there will be a keyboard wth push but-tons to open and close the various circuits, and in this way thecombinations can be changed with great rapidity. Already 25 dif-ferent and distinct displays have been planned. Two men ordy arerequired to attend to the fountain mechanism when in operation. 204 ^ti£dS^Q\U\4i;%vlcW The park being so easily accessible to all the populous districts i

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